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Re: pitaWiSa writing system

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 20:13
En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> > Is there any specific logic to this mapping? >
My logic at least, I'd have made exactly the same mapping.
> Had I been doing it, I'd almost certainly made it p/i t/a k/u, on the > basis > that it's front C or V, middle C or V and back C or V. I'm afraid I'm > pretty > (or prettily?) predictible on some points. >
Predictable? Since frontness-backness has little to do with PoA, I find your mapping extremely strange. u is rounded, thus labial, and thus belongs definitely with p. a is often connected to back consonants (remember the thing about the name of Re in Egyptian being Ria3, the [a] being there only because of the presence of the back consonant 3?) and thus fits well with k, and i, being palatal, belongs with t which is the closest there. Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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